Re: ls operation changed

["J. M. Brenner" <doom kzsu stanford edu>]

Vidiot <brown mrvideo vidiot com> wrote:

> There must be something in my environment that is causing
> this then.  But what?

I can't imagine.  Maybe try creating another user, and
log-in as them, and see if you still see this behavior?

You could also try upgrading your fileutils package.  
Probably can't hurt. 

> Please don't say to use "info ls" to see if there is
> anything in there.  I HATE info.  IMHO that is a horrible
> program.  It is extremely difficult to traverse.  It is not
> obvious how to get around that thing.  Whomever designed
> that program had a sick sense of humor.

I don't doubt it, but it's a pretty basic hypertext browser,
really.  A little clunky perhaps, but like much of the emacs 
stuff, they were making it up as they went along, because
they got there first. 

Myself I wouldn't use the standalone "info" programs, 
I'd suggest sticking with emacs.   "emacs -f info" 
should take you straight into it.  The "s" key will 
let you do searches, e.g. for "fileutils".  The tab key
cycles you between hotspots and the enter key takes you 
down into it.  Hitting the space bar scrolls you through 
things in sequence.  

(Myself, I've been messing around with RedHat network
administration lately, and I keep thinking "if only this
really were a *GNU*/Linux system, releases probably wouldn't
happen as often, but the documentation would be clear,
complete, comprehensible, and up-to-date".)